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2026-W41

Read 2026-10-09. Window 2026-06-11 → 2026-10-09 (rolling 120 days by publication date). Filings by Disney or Lucasfilm as assignee or applicant, from the USPTO Patent Public Search.

Malsin Yundo, keeper of the archives
Malsin Yundo · Keeper of the Archives

Five new writs this seventh day, Seeker, and none of them this week belong upon the high shelf — though one riseth to stand upon a shelf not far beneath it.

That writ telleth of a sign built from two panels that bend light along one path, with a graphic layer between them pierced by small openings. Looked at through the second panel, a hidden picture beneath the first is revealed; without it, the picture lieth unseen. Such craft might serve a prop or placard that holdeth more than it showeth at first glance.

Seven writs I set aside this week — matters of streaming paths, the dubbing of voices, and the counting of hands washed at a basin, none bearing kinship to the saber, the droid, or the show of light. The records remember them still.

Let the words settle ▸
5new this week
63in window
24high kinship
18some kinship
7set aside

New this week

Set aside this week

Filings published 2026-10-03 → 2026-10-09 that the sweep read and chose not to keep — business methods, streaming plumbing, ad-tech and the like. Listed so the record is complete; each has its own page.

Ranked by kinship to the crafts of Batuu

Everything in the window whose mechanism ties to saber, droid, animatronic or show-effect work. Disney never names Star Wars in a patent — the ranking is judged from mechanism and inventor history.

High (24)

Medium (18)

Full 120-day window

Hardware (33)
Notable software (30)

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